The theme of this bachelor paper is Translation difficulties with technical texts – building (filled framework building).
Interest about this theme made difficulties and unclear questions which appear when you translate technical texts form German into Latvian, because it is not so easy to find the right term or its explanation in the target language. That is why all the characteristic traits and necessary knowledge of technical texts are described to repose on authors translated text.
The aim of this bachelor paper is to find out what translation of technical texts means as well as which are the most typical difficulties, when you translate texts about filled framework building.
This work consists of two main chapters and several subparagraphs which characterize following questions:
1)charakterization of technical text translation; this chapter and its subparagraphs gives you information about differences between vulgar tongue (everyday speech) and term lexicon, as well as what kind of knowledge the translator needs for technical text translation; it gives the meaning of word “term” in Latvian and German and charakterizes the importance of terminology competence;
2)difficulties and traits which appeared by translating separate chapters from Heinrich Stiewe book “Fachwerkhäuser in Deutschland”.
In appendix you can see the text which the author has translated in its original and its translation in Latvian.
This work is devised for translators who are occupied with technical text translation and who have faced similar problems, for experts who recently have started to work with filled framework building in Latvia, for them this work could serve for information source, it is also devised for students (translators) who are interested in texts about filled framework building.
Keywords: translation of technical texts, filled framework building, terminology, translation from German into Latvian as a research material, syntactical and lexical traits.